Re: questions based on Digha Tika

Bryan,

I think the reference is to the cha ñāṇāni asādhāraṇāni sāvakehi (Paṭis
I 3).

Lance

> I read it as
>
> He calls it the tranquil heart of
> compassion which has become the distinctive foundation for unique knowledge,
> like the knowledge of omniscience, abundant and complete; it is
> compassion which has reached great compassion through the pervasion of its own
> sphere, the cause of the state of tranqillity of the heart which is distinctive
> to the Blessed One.
>
> sa- in this case must mean "its own" as you have suggested, mirroring omniscience which has also "filled its own sphere," i. e. which is sa-atisayaṃ (abundant, superior) and niravasesaṃ (complete, without remainder)
>
> Mettā, Bryan
>